“Kapale hojo kodh, Pan angane na hojo modh” ibnlive.in/cnnibnvideos/top-in/425897.html It is intriguing that the greatest Hindu of contemporary times is so misunderstood. Please do see this. Very few understand, and this is particularly sad of Gujaraties, to my mind India’s most cosmopolitan people to the manner born. After all Gujarat has the longest shoreline in India, and both Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani are from this same caste. And make so mistake, it was a Gujarati from Burma who first saw the “mahatma” in Gandhi before the Bengali Tagore crowned him with that often infuriating term to a lot of people. Some of these points made will not be surprising for anyone who thinks of Gandhi as something more than a symbol who is easy to caricature and then be kicked about in ideological debates. Guha unearths new material, like how Gandhi’s schoolyard Muslim hero became his ardent follower in South Africa, or that Kasturba was the first Indian woman to court arrest in S. Africa, or that Gandhi was bashed up in Durban, impelled by a vicious white supremacist fear fanned by the city’s press, and found the Superintendent of Police’s wife defending him with her parasol and that Gandhi’s estranged son, Harilal, went to jail 8 times in S. Africa. And that HE never made an African friend. I personally loved Guha pointing out Gandhi’s aesthetics-disabled personality. BTW…the Gujarati quote is what Hamish McDonald’s book on Dhirubhai Ambani, Mahabharata in Polyester, uses in his attempt to write a biography of the industrialist uses. “If Modh Bania practice piety and in temple and abstemious ways in their homes, they are known as fiercely competitive and canny traders in the marketplace, with no compunction about taking advantage of opportunities for profit” – HM in Mahabharata, originally The Polyester Prince. “It is better to have leucoderma [a disfiguring skin pigment disorder] on your forehead than a Modh as guest in your house.” Tantalisingly, Gandhi had offered MA Jinnah partnership in his law firm in Nataal, South Africa, to a “briefless lawyer from Bombay” called MA Jinnah, a clean 50 years before Partition.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:41:18 +0000
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